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[quote=Anonymous]Eight pages and nobody mentioned that op's friend is ok with movie outings? What will she say, "pay for your own ticket, but I'd better not seeing you eat movie popcorn, it's so gross!". 
I would stop socializing with these friends. If they calm down then you can revisit. My rationale is that nobody tells me or my husband what we can't eat in public, especially if we are paying for our meals. Life makes you "suck it up" a lot more then we realize, and a restaurant meal shouldn't be one of them. Recent example, we were at a picnic and they were serving prime rib. Unfortunately we had to leave before the prime rib was ready and I didn't get any.  That's when "suck it up" is appropriate. 
Finally, no peer of mine calls me to a Tony Soprano style sit-down on their turf and tells me that I can't take an action that I am allowed legally and socially to do. Your boss can call you into a meeting, your mother can, and maybe a spouse can, but not a peer. I would also be mad as hell that this friend made you worry needlessly about your children. Believe me, she knew exactly what she was doing. People who engage in such behavior love the power it gives them. It's this action that would make it very difficult if not impossible to want to be close with this couple. I'd be polite when I saw them, but I think I'd find some new friends.     
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